May 18, 2012

Fred
Karger, the GOP candidate for president, and founder of Californians
Against Hate, filed a complaint charging the National Organization for
Marriage, with failure to report $350K in campaign contributions in the
2008 Prop 8 Campaign. A $10K contribution from Mitt Romney’s PAC is
included in the $350K.

Not
long ago, I mentioned that Willard Mitt Romney will be the first major
party candidate for president to have donated money to a hate group. One of those donations is coming back to haunt him and biting him in the
ass now.

A formal complaint has
been filed with the California Fair Political Practices Committee
(FPPC), charging Brian Brown and the National Organization for Marriage
(NOM), with failing to report nearly $350,000 in campaign contributions,
to its “Yes on Proposition 8 Campaign” in 2008. Fred Karger, the gay
Republican presidential candidate, filed the complaint with the FPPC.The
complaint also alleges that NOM did not report these contributions, due
to “the significant attention that they would have received.” The
$10,000 contribution of Willard Mitt Romney’s PAC was not reported to
the California Secretary of State, as required by law.In the sworn statement of the complaint, it says the following:

National Organization for Marriage did not Report $345,400 in Contributions to its “Yes on Proposition 8 Campaign” in 2008

Recently
unsealed documents by a federal judge in Maine have revealed possible
illegal campaign activities by the National Organization for Marriage
(NOM) in California. It appears that NOM attempted to hide $345,400 in
contributions it received in 2008. NOM, acting via “National
Organization for Marriage California – Yes on 8, Sponsored by National
Organization for Marriage” is a primarily formed recipient committee
that supported Proposition 8 in 2008. As a primarily formed recipient
committee, NOM is required to report all receipts and disbursements.

There
are eleven contributions on NOM’s tax return that are not reported on
any of its 2008 filings with the California Secretary of State. One such
contribution that is not reported is $10,000 received from Governor Mitt Romney’s Alabama PAC “Free and Strong America.”

The
list of the eleven contributors that the “National Organization for
Marriage California – Yes on 8, Sponsored by National Organization for
Marriage” did not report to the California Secretary of State in 2008.

Sean Fieler - $100,000

New York, NY

Mark O’Brien - $5,000

Swathmore, PA

Brian Harrington - $10,000

Newtown, CT

Charles Stetson - $20,000

New York, NY

Brent Bowden - $10,000

Mesa PA

Craig Cardon - $25,000

Mesa, AZ

Michael Casey - $150,000

Jamestown, RI

Free and Strong America (Romney’s Alabama PAC) - $10,000

Belmont, CA

Jim Vargas - $10,000

La Jolla, CA

Timothy Busch - $20,000

Irvine, CA

Reported $10,000 Additional $10,000 Not Reported

Kenneth Kremensky - $9,500

El Cajon, CA

Reported $9,100 Additional $400 Not Reported

Total of $350,400 not reported

It
appears that the National Organization for Marriage attempted to hide
these contributions because of the significant attention that they would
have received.

I
hereby request that the California Fair Political Practices Commission
investigate this irregularity to determine if the National Organization
for Marriage conspired to hide these eleven contributions to its Yes on
Proposition 8 Campaign.

Fred
is currently a GOP Presidential candidate, and the founder of
Californians Against Hate, which was formed in 2008 to expose who was
funding the opposition to marriage equality, and supporting Proposition
8, the referendum that rescinded the right to marry a partner of one’s
choosing. Californians Against Hate is now known as Rights Equal Rights.